jog
verbEtymology Of uncertain origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down." Possibly from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”); see jag (“sharp projection”). Or, perhaps an early alteration of English shog (“to jolt, shake; depart, go”), from Middle English shoggen, schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schocken (“to shog”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skukkōn (“to move, shake, tremble”), possibly related to *skakan (“to shake, stir”). More at shock.
To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
- jog one's elbow
- c. 1593, John Donne, Satire I, Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, and cryes: Do you see Yonder well favoured youth? Oh, ’tis hee That dances so divinely
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- When now was wasted more than half the night, And the stars faded at approaching light; Sudden I jogg’d Ulysses, who was laid Fast by my side, and shiv’ring thus I said.1725, Homer, “Book 14”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 271:
To shake, stir or rouse.
- I tried desperately to jog my memory.
To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.
- Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way.c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- 1673, John Milton, “Another on the same” preceded by “On the University Carrier, who sickn’d in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague” referring to Thomas Hobson, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: Tho. Dring, p. 33, Here lieth one who did most truly prove, That he could never die while he could move, So hung his destiny, never to rot, While he might still jogg on and keep his trot,
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- When we had towed about four Days more, our Gunner, who was our Pilot, begun to observe that we did not keep our right Course so exactly as we ought, the River winding away a little towards the North, and gave us Notice accordingly. However, we were not willing to lose the Advantage of Water-Carriage, at least not till we were forced to it; so we jogg’d on, and the River served us about Threescore Miles further […]1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton, page 95:
- That fiery doctor who had hailed me friend, Did it because my by-paths, once proved wrong And beaconed properly, would commend again The good old ways our sires jogged safely o’er, Though not their squeamish sons; […]1835, Robert Browning, Paracelsus^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paracelsus_(Browning)/IV), Part 4:
Exercise, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.
- I saw her jogging in the forest yesterday.
To cause to move at an energetic trot.
- to jog a horse
To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.